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Have you ever considered making a small-budget film? -Yusef M. Taylor, Washington I've had a few projects over the years that have fallen by the wayside for various reasons. But frankly, I like big productions. I'm not particularly interested in doing a little film just for the sake of doing a little film...
Over 200 elated gay and lesbian couples waited in line outside Washington, D.C.’s City Courthouse yesterday morning in anticipation of obtaining licenses that would allow them to legally marry their partners. While this is a significant step in the fight for marriage equality nationwide, some members of the Harvard community have questioned D.C.’s ruling in light of the federal Defense of Marriage...
...With reporting by Katy Steinmetz / Washington...
...with good reason. General Khan reckons that the Pakistani Taliban have killed over 500 tribal elders since 9/11 for supposedly collaborating with Islamabad and Washington. Even after assurances from the army chief, the Mehsud elders are still afraid to venture back to their lands. "The jihad has eliminated the old tribal system of maliks," says General Khan. "Now any crook with a cell phone can call up a gang of his militant friends for any kind of mischief, and everyone is too afraid to stop them." His former colleague, Brigadier Mahmoud Shah, formerly in charge of security for the Northwest...
...Washington agrees with this urgency. In 2007, the Bush Administration approved $750 million to be spent in the Northwest Frontier Province over the next five years to catapult the poor, lawless region into the 21st century, creating schools and jobs and repairing the battered civil society. But because of fears that there were no safeguards to keep corrupt officials from siphoning off the funds, and because much of the region has been off-limits to aid workers due to militancy, only a tenth of that amount has been spent. Nor can aid wait: the U.N. reckons that over 1.63 million...